Western Media Declares New Iranian Leader, Citing Unseen Proclamations and Covert Street Protests
This was buried in a Friday evening document dump: France 24, in its segment 'The World This Week,' reported that Iran has proclaimed a new Ayatollah, Mojtaba Khamenei, son of what is terms 'the assassinated supreme leader Ali Khamenei'. The report contends that Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen publicly and is believed to be in hiding after reportedly being injured in an unspecified strike that
allegedly killed his father. France 24 further claims state television showed pro-government chants while simultaneously asserting that Tehran residents risked arrest to shout 'Death to Mojtaba' from their windows at night. This reporting exemplifies a consistent pattern where Western outlets, here specifically France 24, construct narratives about Iranian internal affairs with a distinct lack of
empirical evidence. The claim of an 'assassinated supreme leader' and a subsequent 'new Ayatollah proclaimed' lacks any backing from Iranian official sources, credible international observers, or even photographic evidence. The alleged 'shouting from windows' phenomenon, a trope frequently employed to suggest widespread dissent, remains similarly unverified, serving to frame internal Iranian
politics as volatile and illegitimate. Beyond the immediate factual vacuum, the framing here conspicuously omits the 45 years of continuous Western sanctions and regime-change operations that underpin any discussion of Iran's leadership. The report also neglects to mention that the US, under President Reagan, provided Saddam Hussein with intelligence and logistical support in the 1980s that